At long last, our 87th PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, is now online: To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. In the show this week: Garth Franklin from DarkHorizons.com joins us again to talk all about the new spate of OotP …read more!

Is Snape Good or Evil? That is the question long asked by fans of the Harry Potter series, and so now too is Scholastic asking this question as part of the “There Will Soon Be 7” campaign. The US publishers have now updated their Harry Potter website with the second of the questions they will …read more!

Last month, we first told you of the details to the Deluxe Edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Scholastic has updated their website to list a page count now for this edition: 816 pages. The regular hardback edition of the US edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is set at 784 …read more!

Scores of readers emailed to say new photos from the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix poster book have surfaced on this livejournal community via user dnz4him. Over the day, both unmarked and marked images have been sent in, and you can now see these in our galleries. New are photos of : …read more!

It makes this editor’s heart full of pride to announce the new Wizard of the Month for May on JKRowling.com is none other than my hero, err I mean…Helga Hufflepuff! Writes Jo: (Medieval, precise dates unknown) One of the four celebrated Founders of Hogwarts, Hufflepuff was particularly famous for her dexterity at food-related Charms. Many …read more!

Three brand new images from the Play Station 3 “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” video game have been released today, they show a poised the DA at the Ministry and OotP Video Game section of the image galleries. we told you about earlier this month with EA producer, Harvey Elliott, on the …read more!

While not even released yet, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been nominated for the ‘Best Summer Movie You Haven’t Seen Yet’ on the MTV Movie Awards. Up against fellow summer releases such as Rush Hour 3, Hairspray, The Fantastic Four, Transformers and Evan Almighty, the golden popcorn trophy will be awarded …read more!

Well, it’s fitting that this is the day we reopen PotterParties, because this was a favorite project of his, but: Today is our lovely B.K. Delong’s birthday! We want to pause and celebrate him today as one of the original pioneers of Leaky; back in “the day,” as that day is so often referred, B.K. …read more!

We’re VERY happy to announce that almost three full months before Deathly Hallows hits shelves, PotterParties.com is live again! What is PotterParties? It is a comprehensive, free listing of Harry Potter book parties all over the world. There are ALREADY 1,163 parties listed in our database! You can search your area for Potter Parties and …read more!

New looks at the products due out with the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix are now online. Earlier we told you about the NECA house banners, keychains and magnets due; now the company (which holds the North American license to the Harry Potter products) has updated their website with even …read more!